Friedrich von huene biography of mahatma gandhi

German paleontologist (1875–1969)

This article is about the German paleontologist. For the American recorder maker, see Friedrich von Huene (musician).

Friedrich von Huene born Friedrich Richard Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German nobleman paleontologist who described a large number of dinosaurs, more than anyone else in 20th-century Europe.

Friedrich von huene biography of mahatma gandhi

He studied a range of Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods. He worked at the collections of the institute and museum for geology and paleontology at the University of Tübingen.

Biography

Von Huene was born in Tübingen, Kingdom of Württemberg and came from a noble Baltic German family.

He took this Baltic identity to heart and would later call his home on Zeppelinstraße (now Payerstraße) as Villa Baltica. His father Johannes von Hoyningen called Huene was a Lutheran minister who had studied theology at Göttingen, Tübingen and Dorpat.

His mother Alexandra Baronesse Stackelbe